Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 14:09:46 -0400
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v2
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On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 06:11:42PM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >>>>> " " == Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> writes:
> 
>      > Well, using BK as of Friday last week I'm still having a
>      > complete disaster of NFS support.
> 
> Please try a more recent snapshot. The OOM situation was only fixed
> with the patches that Linus pulled for patch-2.5.69-bk7
> (i.e. yesterday's snapshot).
> 
> Oh. Please also turn off any 'soft' mount option that you may
> have. Like it or not, those *will* cause EIO errors.

Thanks for the quick and accurate response.  I switched to this
morning's BK, and now NFS-root is working like a charm.  I used to get
both EIO and EPERM errors under load; now everything appears to work
OK.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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